1 Kings 3:21 Meaning, Study, & Commentary | NLT

And in the morning when I tried to nurse my son, he was dead! But when I looked more closely in the morning light, I saw that it wasn’t my son at all.”

Commentaries

John Gill

JohnGill

17th Century

Reformed Baptist

17th Century

And when I rose in the morning to give my child suck
As she used to do: behold, it was dead

Matthew Henry

MatthewHenry

17th Century

Presbyterian

17th Century

An instance of Solomon's wisdom is given. Notice the difficulty of the case. To find out the true mother, he could not try which the child loved be…